Apparatus for use as a clutching, coupling, or locking device and the like.



E. PEUCH 6L A. ARBEY.

APPARATUS FOB USE AS A CLUTCHING, COUPLING, 0R LOCKING DEVICE AND THELIKE.

'APPLICATION HLED JULY 11.1913.

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Patented May 22, 1917.

. Doubs, in the Republic of France, engineers,

EMILE PEUCH, OF BOURGES, AND ALPHONSE ARBEY, OF BEURE, FRANCE.

APPARATUS FOR USE AS A CLUTCHING, COUPLING, 0R LOCKING DEVICE AND THELIKE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 22, 1917.

Application le. July 17, 1913. Serial No. 779,534.

To all whom 'it may concern.'

Be it known that we, EMILE PEUGH and ALPHONSE ABBEY, citizens of theRepublic of France, residing the first at 12 Rue de lbservato'ire,Bourges, Cher, in the-Repub lic of France, and the second at Beure,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in4 or Relating to VApparatus for Use as a Clutching, Coupling, orLocking Device and thelike, of which the following is a specification. I i

The object of this invention is to provide a clutch apparatus adapted tocouple two parts or members, and capable also of being used as a brake.L

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure l illustrates, insection, one embodiment of our invention; Fig. 2 illustrates theemployment of a knob for uncoupling the parts; Fig. 3 illustrates theemployment of a slide.

In the drawing, the improvements are shown as applied to a windshield orother swinging frame.

As shown in Fig. 1, the hub or member Y) is integral with one of thescreen-supj'iortsv and the trunnion or member 0 is associated with theswinging screen or frame of a wind-shield. The hub is provided with acircular raceway for balls, a, while the trunnion isprovided withperipheral radial grooves in which said balls also t. The bottom wallsof the grooves are inclined as shown.

A spring is fitted between the two parts o and c, so as to normally tendto move the trunnion axially onto the hub, with the result that theballs, held by the circular raceway, will ride up the inclined groovesof the trunnion and be gripped between the trunnion and hub, thusgripping the frame in any adjusted position.

To release the parts, when desired, for

further adjustment, we have provided a cable g. A pull on that cableresults in moving the trunnion into the hub against the action of thespring; thereupon the balls are freed to run in the circular racewayuntil the new adjustment is effected. Upon Any suitable means may beemployed for pulling the cable. In Fig. 2, we have shown the use of aknob, g. The cable is shown as being secured to the knob, and as adaptedto lead to and simultaneously unlock two devices of the kind shown inFig. l. The structure shown in Fig. 3 employs slides g2 for operatingthe cables.v These slides may be drawn together by hand and will berestored to position by the springs which normally lock the partstogether. j j It must be noted, that our improvements are not limited tostructures having one or more swinging'parts, but may be embodied in anystructure having one 'or more of its parts movable in any manner.

Claim:

The combination of a movable frame, a

trunnion associated with the frame and provreleasing the pull on ythecable, the spring vided with inclined cavities, ballsin said j cavities,a hub surrounding the trunnion i and having circular ballebearings forsaid balls, a spring tending t'o move the hub axially of the trunnion,and a cable adapted to move the hub against the action of the spring.

In testimony, that we claim the foregoing as our invention we havesigned our names in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EMILE PEUCH. ALPHONSE ABBEY. Witnesses:

LON RMOUDY, MAURICE ROUX.

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